Stanson Toshok Center for Brain Function and Repair Diseases

Addiction

• Heinz Steiner
  • Pedron, S., Beverley, J., Haffen, E., Andrieu, P., Steiner, H. and Van Waes, V., Transcranial direct current stimulation produces long-lasting attenuation of cocaine-induced behavioral responses and gene regulation in corticostriatal circuits. Addict. Biol. 22:1267-1278, 2017. 
  • Van Waes, V. and Steiner, H., Fluoxetine and other SSRI antidepressants potentiate addiction-related gene regulation by psychostimulant medications. In: Fluoxetine: Pharmacology, Mechanisms of Action and Potential Side Effects, G. Pinna (Ed.), Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 207-225, 2015."

ADHD

• Heinz Steiner
  
  • Alter, D., Beverley, J.A., Patel, R., Bolaños-Guzmán, C.A., and Steiner, H., The 5-HT1B serotonin receptor regulates methylphenidate-induced gene expression in the striatum: Differential effects on immediate-early genes. J. Psychopharmacol. 31:1078-1087, 2017.
  • Van Waes, V., Ehrlich, S., Beverley, J.A. and Steiner, H., Fluoxetine potentiation of methylphenidate-induced gene regulation in striatal output pathways: Potential role for 5-HT1B receptor. Neuropharmacology 89:77-86, 2015.

Anxiety

• Kaiwen Kam
  
  • Yackle, K., Schwarz, L.A., Kam, K., Sorokin, J.M., Huguenard, J.R., Feldman, J.L., Luo, L., and Krasnow, M.A. Breathing control center neurons that promote arousal in mice. Science, 2017 March 31, Vol. 355(6332), pp. 1411-1415.
  • Li, P., Janczewski, W.A., Yackle, K., Kam, K., Pagliardini, S., Krasnow, M.A., Feldman, J.L. The peptidergic control circuit for sighing. Nature, 2016 Feb 18, Vol. 530(7590), pp. 293-7.
  • Feldman, J.L., Kam, K. Facing the challenge of mammalian neural microcircuits: taking a few breaths may help. Journal of Physiology, 2015 Jan 1, Vol. 593(1), pp. 3-23.

Brain Function

• Lise Eliot
  • Eliot L, Ahmed A, Khan H, Patel J. Dump the "dimorphism": Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2021 Jun;125:667-697. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.026. Epub 2021 Feb 20. PMID: 33621637.
  • Rippon G, Eliot L, Genon S, Joel D. How hype and hyperbole distort the neuroscience of sex differences. PLoS Biol. 2021 May 10;19(5):e3001253. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001253. PMID: 33970901; PMCID: PMC8136838.
  • Lise Eliot. Consequences for biological and neurological development. In: Gender Typing of Children’s Toys: Causes, Correlates, and Consequences, Erica S. Weisgram and Lisa M. Dinella, Eds., American Psychological Association, Chapter 7. January 2018.
  • Lise Eliot. The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone. New Scientist, Issue 3147 (10 October 2017).
  • Meta-analysis reveals a lack of sexual dimorphism in human amygdala volume. NeuroImage, 147:282–294 (2017). With co-authors Dhruv Marwha and Meha Halari. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.12.021 PMID: 27956206
  • Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2009). Also published in Great Britain (One World) and in translation in German (Berlin Verlag), French (Robert Laffont), Japanese (Japan Broadcast Publishing Co.), Chinese (China Machine Press/HZ), Korean (The Book in My Life Co.), Romanian (Editura Trei), Turkish (Pegasus), and Portuguese (Artmed, Brazil).
• William N. Frost
  • Brandon, C., Britton, M., Fan, D., Ferrier, A.R., Hill, E.S., Perez, A., Wang, J., Wang, N., and Frost, W.N. Serial-section atlas of the Tritonia pedal ganglion. J. Neuropysiol. doi.org/10.1152/jn.00670.2017. 2018.
  • Bruno, A.M., Frost, W.N. and Humphries, M.D. A spiral attractor network drives rhythmic locomotion.  eLife 2017;6:e27342 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.27342. 2017. 
  • Frost, W.N., Brandon, C.J., Bruno, A.M.., Humphries, M.D., Moore-Kochlacs, C., Sejnowski, T.J., Wang, J. and Hill, E.S. Monitoring spiking activity of many individual neurons in invertebrate ganglia. Adv Exp Med Biol, 859: 127-145, 2015.
• Kaiwen Kam
  
  • Cui, Y., Kam, K., Sherman, D., Janczewski, V.A., Zheng, Y., and Feldman, J.L. Defining preBötzinger Complex rhythm- and pattern-generating neural microcircuits in vivo. Neuron, 2016 Aug 3, Vol. 91(3), pp. 602-14.

Parkinsons

• Heinz Steiner
  
  • Altwal F, Moon C, West AR, Steiner H. The Multimodal Serotonergic Agent Vilazodone Inhibits L-DOPA-Induced Gene Regulation in Striatal Projection Neurons and Associated Dyskinesia in an Animal Model of Parkinson's Disease. Cells. 2020 Oct 9;9(10):2265. doi: 10.3390/cells9102265. PMID: 33050305; PMCID: PMC7600385.
  • Steiner, H., Psychostimulant-induced gene regulation in striatal circuits. In: Handbook of Basal Ganglia Structure and Function, Second Edition; H. Steiner and K.Y. Tseng (Eds.); Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience Series, Vol. 24; Academic Press/Elsevier, London, pp. 639-672, 2016.

Schizophrenia

• William N. Frost
  
  • Lee, A.H., Brandon, C.L., Wang, J.W., and Frost, W.N. An argument for amphetamine-induced hallucinations in an invertebrate. Frontiers in Physiology. doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.00730. 2018.
• Heinz Steiner
  
  • Steiner, H., Psychostimulant-induced gene regulation in striatal circuits. In: Handbook of Basal Ganglia Structure and Function, Second Edition; H. Steiner and K.Y. Tseng (Eds.); Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience Series, Vol. 24; Academic Press/Elsevier, London, pp. 639-672, 2016.
  • Van Waes, V. and Steiner, H., Fluoxetine and other SSRI antidepressants potentiate addiction-related gene regulation by psychostimulant medications. In: Fluoxetine: Pharmacology, Mechanisms of Action and Potential Side Effects, G. Pinna (Ed.), Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 207-225, 2015.
  • Trossbach, S.V., Bader, V., Hecher, L., Pum, M.E., Masoud, S.T., Prikulis, I., Schäble, S., de Souza Silva, M.A., Su, P., Boulat, B., Chwiesko, C., Poschmann, G., Stühler, K., Lohr, K.M., Stout, K.A., Weisshaupt, A., Godsave, S.F., Müller-Schiffmann, K., Bilzer, T., Steiner, H., Peters, P.J., Bauer, A., Sauvage, M., Ramsey, A.J., Miller, G.W., Liu, F., Seeman, P., Brandon, N.J., Huston, J.P. and Korth, C., Misassembly of full-length Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 protein is linked to altered dopamine homeostasis and behavioral deficits. Molecular Psychiatry 21:1561-1572, 2016.
  • Steiner, H., Warren, B.L., Van Waes, V. and Bolaños-Guzmán, C.A., Life-long consequences of juvenile exposure to psychotropic drugs on brain and behavior. Prog. Brain Res. 211:13-30, 2014.